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[mlawson]

Ahhhhh! All the 10 Ember tetras are dead! Yesterday I turned the CO2 off for maintenance, and this morning I turned it back on, but obviously too much! I came back home from school today with all the fish dead, floating on the top. I took them all out with a net, turned the CO2 off and quickly I could see the 2 Amano shrimp were resting at the bottom. So I fetched an airpump from another tank and placed it infront of the filter flow. I did this for about 10 minutes. It's still in there now, and the Amano shrimp seem to be moving. Hopefully they will recover. It's strange as I've heard a lot of people say that shrimp are the most afdfected by high-levels of CO2.

Poor fish! I feel like such an idiot for this and I guess I have learnt my lesson about being careful with pressurised CO2. Tommorow I plan to move the Amano shrimp to another tank, so there are no fish/inverts, and when I get all the CO2, dosing right, I might add new fish at a later date. I'm also going to invest in a Drop checker as before I was relying on the bubble rate.



Mike

 

[nry]

Blimey, bad result! Drop checkers are really good, nice and simple!

 

[arvlyn]

Oh no!! I'm so sorry that happened to your little guys!!! That's one reason I'm afraid to even try CO2.

 

[mlawson]

Blimey, bad result! Drop checkers are really good, nice and simple!

I might get one of the 'tear drop' ones you can get off E-bay.

I really liked these Ember Tetras, they seemed to be doing pretty well, before they died, there was no sign of illness before the wipeout.

 

[nry]

eBay seems to have dropped the tear-drop ones for the past few days - I prefer them too, very simple and un-intrusive. I even have a teeny glass pipette waiting to let me get fluid in and out of one!

 

[RadaR]

Really sorry to hear about your loss Mike
I love Ember tetras aswell. Unfortunatly I've never been able to find them near me.
Do you have any idea what you will replace them with?

 

[mlawson]

Really sorry to hear about your loss Mike
I love Ember tetras aswell. Unfortunatly I've never been able to find them near me.
Do you have any idea what you will replace them with?

I'm not sure what I will peplace them with, I have some new Celestial Pearl danios which I am planning to breed, it probably wont be them, but perhaps another small species, maybe a microrasbora species. I don't know.

 

[DevUK]

Sorry about that Mike

Don't foget to keep some bioload in there though, so your tank doesn't go into a cycle

 

[nry]

Boraras maculatus? A stunning deep red colour with the right food and lights! I'm not biased, honest, but I have 7 and they are amazing fish, like other danio relations, they are not timid and shoal a fair bit whilst being very peaceful. And small at ~1.5cm (maybe 2-2.5cm inc. tail fin max, mine are about 2cm inc. tail fin after 6 months).

http/www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_Boraras_maculatus.php

Mine were from TropicalFish4U/TriMar at £1 each, they seem to have a number of the smaller species.

 

[RadaR]

Couldn't agree more with nry. They are lovely fish if I recall correctly.

 

[mlawson]

Boraras maculatus? A stunning deep red colour with the right food and lights! I'm not biased, honest, but I have 7 and they are amazing fish, like other danio relations, they are not timid and shoal a fair bit whilst being very peaceful. And small at ~1.5cm (maybe 2-2.5cm inc. tail fin max, mine are about 2cm inc. tail fin after 6 months).

http/www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_Boraras_maculatus.php

Mine were from TropicalFish4U/TriMar at £1 each, they seem to have a number of the smaller species.

I was actually thinking of getting these fish before I got my Ember Tetras, as I saw the Ember Tetras at my Local Fish store and I got them instead. They definitely are a good option and I may get them. I tihnk they would look quite good against the green of my pants.

Thanks,
Mike

Edit: Typo. When I said the green of my 'pants', I meant 'plants'

 

[DevUK]

Suuure you did